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How far are you willing to go?

November 10, 2010 By
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If you truly love somebody, how far are you willing to go in terms of making a sacrifice to improve their life?  In recent weeks, I find myself facing that question. Over the past few years, I have become very close with one of my nieces.  Her name is Nicole, and she is 6 years old, or as she would say “mag 7″ (translated… will be 7) in January.  Nicole is really a cute and sweet girl, and I love her very much.  I am a sucker for kids anyway, but there is something special about Nicole.  When she was much younger, I was not that close to her, as I already lived in Davao when she was born, and we just didn’t know … [Read more...]

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Doing the perimeter thing

April 16, 2010 By 18 Comments
mangoes1

What do I mean about "the perimeter thing"?  Just keep reading and you will understand. About 5 or 6 weeks ago, I happened to be watching CNN to catch up on the news.  It happened that they had more of a "feature" show on, rather than the news, Anderson Cooper 360.  I watched for a bit, and found that they had Jamie Oliver on.  If you don't know who Jamie Oliver is, he is a British Chef.  He is a TV Chef.  He has had a number of cooking shows on British TV over the years.  He's OK, I'm not a huge fan, but I have watched some of his shows from time to time, and my wife Feyma has picked up a few good recipes from Jamie's show over the … [Read more...]

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Feeling good

April 10, 2009 By 2 Comments
Diabetes

For several weeks now, I have had my diabetes in good control.  I had gone for a long time without controling it, and I feel a lot better now with my blood glucose level at more normal levels.  Over the past few weeks, my blood glucose readings have been running from a low of 101 to a high of 145.  I have seen no reading higher than 145, which I would have considered very low just a few weeks ago. Not only is it just nice to see these normal levels of blood sugar, I also feel a lot better.  The good feeling is both physical and also mental as well.  When your glucose is out of control, you tend to be moody, get angry easily, etc. and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Diabetes, Mental Health

Learning about diet

April 6, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Eating Fish

In the past few weeks, I have been making a serious effort to get better control over my eating, because my diabetes has been out of control, and I need to do something about it.  So far, I've been very successful, and I've brought my blood glucose levels down to fairly normal levels.  A blood glucose reading for a person without diabetes is generally around 120 or less after fasting overnight.  My blood glucose lately after fasting is running about 140 to 145, and pretty stable at that reading.  A little higher than a non-diabetic, but that is quite a good reading for me. Considering that just a few weeks ago my blood glucose was … [Read more...]

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The test strip scam

March 8, 2009 By 4 Comments
Test Strips

Over the past few months, I have let my diabetes get the better of me.  I have been having health problems lately because of the fact that I allowed my blood glucose level to get out of control.  Diabetes is not a forgiving disease.  If you don't control your diabetes, it controls you.  I am tired of being controlled by diabetes, and my poor control of the disease.  I am tired of feeling poorly.  I decided to do something about it. First step is that I got my blood glucose meter to check what my glucose level was.  It's hard to improve if you don't know exactly where you stand.  Oops.  There is a problem.  I don't have any test … [Read more...]

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Dads have a big impact on us

January 29, 2009 By 7 Comments
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Our dads have a huge impact on our lives, sometimes good, sometimes bad.  A few days ago I was having a conversation with a man.  This fellow is of retirement age.  He told me about his dad, and how he had negative feelings to this day about his relationship with his dad.  He went on to say that it was silly for a man of his age to be talking of how his dad treated him and such.  I told him that I disagreed.  Talking about things that bring you pain is the best thing that you can do. Because of this conversation, I decided to share a little bit about my relationship with my dad, and how it affected me. When I was a child, my dad had a … [Read more...]

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Is being smart a curse?

January 16, 2009 By 19 Comments
tnbrain

I am not trying to brag, or saying that I am better than others, but I will just say that I am a smart person.  I have a high IQ.  I also hear it all the time from people who say that I am smart, and such.  So, I simply accept the fact that I am smart as a fact.  Like I say, I am not trying make it seem that I am something that I am not, just accepting that what people tell me is true. The thing is, being smart is not necessarily always a good thing.  There are times when being dumb, or at least pretending to be dumb is the smart way to go.  If you are smart, people have very high expectations of you.  Even if you can meet the … [Read more...]

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Wrist Problems

January 14, 2009 By 9 Comments
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About a year ago, in early 2008, I started having problems with my wrists.  Most of the times, my wrists felt normal, but from time to time I would get sharp pains in my wrists.  Both wrists experienced the problem, although my right wrist was worse with more often pain, and more severe as well. For 6 months or so the problem persisted, but was manageable.  Then, in early July I woke up one morning in severe pain.  My right wrist was about as painful as it possibly could be.  I tried all kinds of different ways to relieve the pain - tylenol, advil, ice, heat - none of them were all that effective.  My first thought was that I was … [Read more...]

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Mental Health?

January 13, 2009 By 7 Comments
mentalhealth

I have let this blog go for too long.  Letting the blog go also means letting my health suffer, because when  I am active on this blog, I take better care of myself too.  I mean, if you are writing about your own health, it is only natural that you are going to take better care of yourself right? Part of reviving the site is that I gave the site a new look to start off the new year, 2009.  I also changed some of the categories of things that I will be writing about.  One of the categories that I will be focusing on is Mental Health.  Why?  Am I crazy?  Well, I think that all of us have mental issues, and that does not necessarily … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Mental Health

Doing the ritual

April 25, 2008 By 4 Comments
clothes

OK, I did it today. I did the ritual that I have done so many time in my life. Today, though, it was different. Same ritual, for a different reason, though, and it felt better too! If you are like me, and have fought a weight problem for many years (I've been fighting it since I was a young child), you have, I have no doubt, had times when you went through your closet and cleaned out the clothes that no longer fit. Yeah, you know the ritual, right? Usually you put it off, delay it as long as possible. You deny that it is needed, but in your mind you know that half the clothes in your closet no longer fit you, because you've been … [Read more...]

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